Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-24
THE PRIDE OF PORK
A RENEGADE SON OF ISRAEL
RECEIVES A LETTER.
One Hundred Dollars a Week for n
Freshman Profits of Fresh and
Salt POrk-An Open Letter
to PulitZer's World.
Move On!

one who has done her full share for
the improvement of humanity, Celia
b. Whitehead, wastes precious mo-
ments in writing to that renegade
Israelite and purchasable editor,
Pulitzer. Now, the letter has come
into our hands, and we propose to
give it to appreclatlve readers with
the very slightest changes, demand
ed by time and facts.
THE LETTER.
The following item appeared in
the World not a great while ago.
"Phil Armour's son in the freshman
class at Yale has an allowance of
500 a week and this without com
ment.
| marvel that a journal which
pretended to work untringly to
bring "boodle aldermen to justice,
and even makes pretense to be on
the alert to ferret ont some great
wrong, should let such text 60 by
without sermon.
Was it because it carries so plain a
lesson on it's face that "he who runs
may read?"
Did the New York World consider
that when Phil. Armour's workmen
sit before their bright CRATES in their
cosy parlors, with their feet i'll vel
vet slippers, and read this item (for
perhaps the paper goes to Chicago
they will shake their heads and say:
owe must begin to look into this
matter. We are allowing our sons
at Yale only $50 q week--only one
half as much as Mr.. Armour allows
his son. Is it because we are stlngy,
or is it possible that he is taking a
larger per cent. out Of the business
than we are?'
Alas. it would be bad enough if
the inequality were only so much as
two to one; but what in reality is it'
The workman does not sit by a
bright fire with his feet in velvet
slippers, and wonder why he cannot
do half as well by his son as the
wealthy pork-packer does by his.
lie probably sits by the kitchen stove
and thinks bitterly Gf perchance he
be of the thinking kind, that Phil.
Armours son is allowed eight or ten
times more for himself alone than
the workman is allowed for himself
and family.
If such glaring inequality as this
should fail to breed discomfort We
might well despair of humanity and
conclude that the masses are fore
ordained to slavery. When men do
grow restless and turbulent under
such a state Of affairs, and demand
at least fewer hours of labor, and for
such demand are shot down by Pink
erton's hired assasslns, what then
And when for protesting against such
slaughter seven men are hanged,
what then? "After us the delugc.
Nay, verify, but now.
Can the IIOrH fail to see that
now. when, "for the first time, the
the gutter-snipe is learning to read,
the masses will surely take these
things into account and try to find
out why it is that one mans one son
has an allowance of 500 a week
while they must support their fami'
lies on $40, Sl2 or SIS week?
viii the World help them to solve
the problem in just and peaceable
way, or will it side with the injustic,
and cry out for claw and order?"
In John Boyle O'Reilly's won der
full poem on Wendell Phillips W.
read:
Fanatic. the insects hissed till he taugh
them to understand
That the highest crime may be writer
in the highest law of the land.
Does not even a slight review ot
the history of nations show us Law
and order as often on the side o
wrong as on the side of right:
Is the law aud order that keep.